Wall Socket electricity outlet - Load configuration?

[fonebone]

I have a room with just a double wall socket for electricity. There is a basic four-way 13amp fused extension lead plugged into each socket - 2 extension leads total.

Extension 1 has the computer (5amp fuse) and monitor (5amp fuse)
Extension 2 has the computer loudspeakers (13amp fuse) very nice.

Winter is around the corner and I would like to plug in my little Halogen Heater somewhere (13amp fuse) without overloading anything.

a) Computer and Monitor are on all day.
b) Loudspeakers are on intermittantly throughout the day (web browsing) and maybe an hour in the evening if I'm lucky although the volume is mostly low and never loud.
c) The heater has three 400w settings, presumably 1200w total. When it is on at all it is usually just 400w. On my birthday it might be upped to 800w. I can't remember it ever being used at 1200w.
d) I don't know anything about electricity.

Thanks in advance

 

[Steve]

Your computer loudspeakers . . . they really ought to have a 3amp fuse, unless they are huge disco DJ speakers.

 

[breezer]

why are they not all plugged into the same 4 way blcok with surge protection?

 

[fonebone]

Ah.. very interesting crafty1289.. I've always wondered about that myself - it is the Labtec Pulse 485 2.1 Speaker System and it is the plug that was in the box. This is the configuration and features: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Labtec-Puls...id=1163452786/ref=sr_11_1/202-7208017-6078229
Tiny little speakers really.

 

[fonebone]

Many thanks breezer, but:

d) I don't know anything about electricity.

 

[breezer]

so what is to jknow, you buy a 4 way block (with surge protection) and plug it all in

 

[breezer]

sarcasm is a waste of time.

but as i am feeling helpful

get one of these

9.99 v new pc hmmm

 

[Steve]

Breezer is trying to help.

Those speakers need a 3 amp fuse with red writing on it. Go buy one now.

You can safely plug all your computer equipment into the same socket, since none of it uses more than a couple of amps. This leaves the other socket free for the heater.